300 Great One Line Quotes to Keep it Short and Simple

Sometimes you prefer a nice, short quote, something that gets the point across but is still quick and easy. Which is why we have put together a list of all the best one line quotes for your next post. And if you’re looking for short one line quotes for Instagram, we also have you covered.

Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.

One Line Quotes

“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.” – Crystal Woods

“Could I have been anyone other than me?”― Dave Matthews

“No one has ever found themselves without being a little lost.” ―Sai Pradeep

“The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.” — Zeno

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” — Edgar Allan Poe

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“We love the things we love for what they are.” – Robert Frost

“The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” — Claude Monet

“You are your choices.” – Seneca

“We can truly love one another once we love who we are.” –Angela C. Santomero

“Sunsets are proof that no matter what happens, every day can end beautifully.” – Kristen Butler

“Meet me where the sky touches the sea.” – Jennifer Donnelly

“Loved you yesterday, love you still, always have, always will.” – Elaine Davis

“Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus

“Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.” – Ovid

“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” —Kate Winslet

“And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.” – Confucius

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” —Lao Tzu

“It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.” – H. L. Mencken

“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” – Bob Marley

“The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler

“Sunset is the opening music of the night.”― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The only joy in the world is to begin.” – Cesare Pavese

“We love because it’s the only true adventure.” – Nikki Giovanni

“If you are positive, you’ll see opportunities instead of obstacles.” – Widad Akrawi

“Be happy. It really annoys negative people.” – Ricky Gervais

“Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.” – Robert Browning

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” –Arthur Ashe

“Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets.” – Dr. Suess

“Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.”  – Ed Viesturs

“When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy

“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.” – Franklin P. Jones

“It’s almost always possible to be honest and positive.” – Naval Ravikant

“Love is an untamed force.” – Paulo Coelho

“Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life.” — Buddha

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

“No pressure, no diamonds.” – Thomas Carlyle

“You go in with a positive attitude and stay there.” – Shelley Long

“You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara De Angelis

“Love is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.” – Lisa Hoffman

“In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” — Aristotle

“Tell yourself how much you love yourself.” – Don Miguel Ruiz

“Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” – Samuel Beckett

“Life is short it is up to you to make it sweet.” – Sarah Louise

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.” – Kahlil Gibran

“When things go wrong, don’t go with them.” — Elvis Presley

“Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.” — Gary Snyder

“Things don’t have to change the world to be important.” – Steve Jobs

“One has to be positive. When you’re positive, good things happen.” – Deep Roy

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder

“Never go too long without watching a sunset.” – Atticus

“Learn to love yourself enough to be happy in your own company.” – Samantha Camargo

“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” — Maxime Lagacé

“The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.” – William Hazlitt

“Say something positive, and you’ll see something positive.” —Jim Thompson

“The most wasted of days is one without laughter.” —E. E. Cummings

“I dwell in possibility.” —Emily Dickinson

“Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.” – Charles Dickens

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.” – Margaret Mead

“Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.” — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“I want to be with you until my last page.” – A.R. Asher

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” – Aristotle

“Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.” – Buddha

“It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.” – Willie Nelson

“Everything looks cute when it’s small.” – Cynthia Rawley

“In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.” – Charlie Brown

“Colors are the smiles of nature.”— Leigh Hunt

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“You can’t close your heart to things you don’t want to feel.” – Johnny Depp

“When you feel sad, it’s okay. It’s not the end of the world.” – Mac Miller

“Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.” – Helen Keller

“The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” – Al McGuire

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam

“It’s not just a sunset; it’s a moonrise too.” – P. C. Cast

“Whatever you are, be a good one.” – Abraham Lincoln

“You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself.” – R.Z.

“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well-lived.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Have faith in yourself and in the future.” – Ted Kennedy

“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” – Edmund Hillary

“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” – Richie Norton

“Mostly, the world sees you the way you see yourself.”– Lisa Nichols

“You choose the life you live.” – Kim Kiyosaki

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean

“Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.” – Albert Einstein

“Softly the evening came with the sunset.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Happiness is a state of mind. It’s just according to the way you look at things.” – Walt Disney

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Turn every life situation into a positive one.” – Rhonda Byrne

“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot

“I believe you make your day. You make your life.” – Brad Pitt

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” —Dalai Lama

“Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.” – Benjamin Franklin

“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.” – Sinclair Lewis

“All limitations are self-imposed.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

”I’m here. I love you.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” —Lao Tzu

“The constant happiness is curiosity.” – Alice Munro

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“Don’t forget: Beautiful sunsets need cloudy skies” – Paulo Coelho

“Hiking is the only slightly less ugly stepsister of running.” – Lindy Hughes

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” – Mark Twain

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius

“Every sunset brings the promise of a new dawn” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.” – Roger Miller

“Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.” — Confucius

“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” —Napoleon Hill

“You can choose to not let little things upset you.” – Joel Osteen

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” —Erol Ozan

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” —Dr. Seuss

“Enjoy every moment you have. Because in life, there are no rewinds, only flashbacks.” –Anmol Andore

“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.” – Aristotle

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.” – Henry Rollins

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Roll with the punches and enjoy every minute of it.” – Meghan Markle

“Man’s heart away from nature becomes hard.”— Standing Bear

“Keep going. Is not as difficult as you feel it is. Don’t give up.” – Brandon Sanderson

“Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” – Les Brown

“Do good and good will come to you.” —Adam Lowy

“Don’t worry, Be Happy.” – Bobby McFerrin

“We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” – Helen Keller

“Live life to the fullest.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Tough times never last but tough people do.” – Robert H. Schuller

“Mountains have a way of dealing with overconfidence.” – Hermann Buhl

“Every strength is also a weakness. The opposite is true as well.” – Neil Strauss

“Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.” – Barbara De Angelis

“Love me and I may be forced to love you.” – William Arthur Ward

“When you make a choice, you change the future.”– Deepak Chopra

“You call it madness, but I call it love.” – Don Byas

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.” – Frank A. Clark

“The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually.” – Eeyore

“It hurts to leave a light on for nobody.” — Graham Foust

“We were together. I forget the rest.” – Walt Whitman

“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford

“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.” – Lucille Ball

“A positive attitude awakens inner strength, energy, motivation, and initiative.” – Remez Sasson

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” – Babe Ruth

“Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” – Muhammad Ali

“Life is a first impression. You get one shot at it. Make it everlasting.” – J.R. Rim

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns

“Joy blooms where minds and hearts are open.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.” – Oscar Wilde

“Victory is sweetest when you’ve known defeat.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.” – Jim Rohn

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.” – Joe Kennedy

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.” – Seneca

“May you live all the days of your life.” -Jonathan Swift

“Live for each second without hesitation.” — Elton John

“I’d far rather be happy than right any day.” – Douglas Adams

“Tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all.” – Alrded Lord Tennyson

“Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.” – Herman Hesse

“Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians.” – Chinese proverb

“I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.” — John McLeod

“Be mindful. Be grateful. Be positive. Be true. Be kind.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” – Pablo Picasso

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Get busy living or get busy dying.” — Stephen King

“We can only learn to love by loving.” – Iris Murdoch

“Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon” – Winnie the Pooh

“No guts no glory.” – General Frederick Corbin Blesse

“In order to carry a positive action, we must develop here a positive vision.” – Dalai Lama

“I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.” – Jake Owen

“Love yourself more, you’ll never regret it.” – Ann Marie Molina

“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.” – Pablo Neruda

“Determine your priorities and focus on them.” – Eileen McDargh

“This has been my life; I found it worth living.” – Bertrand Russell

“You can’t buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.” ― Henny Youngman

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Happiness [is] only real when shared” – Jon Krakauer

“That’s the secret to life… replace one worry with another…” – Charlie Brown

“Simplicity makes me happy.” – Alicia Keys

“Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.” – John Heywood

“There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.” – Jim Henson

“Courage doesn’t always roar.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.” – Johnny Carson

“Sunsets are my escape into the reality I want to continuously live.” – Rachel Roy

“We can always be chasing the sun.” — Sara Bareilles

“Always wear cute pajamas to bed, you’ll never know who u will meet in your dreams.” – Joel Madden

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.” – Pablo Neruda

“I love you. I am at rest with you. I have come home.” – Dorothy L. Sayers

“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” – Hermann Hesse

”How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Every sunset is also a sunrise; it all depends on where you stand.” – Karl Schmidt

“To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.” – Albert Camus

“Hiking is just walking where it’s okay to pee.” – Demetri Martin

“Give yourself the love you’re willing to give to others.” – Mahin Ismail

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” — Elbert Hubbard

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.” ―Confucius

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of others.” – Charles Dickens

“A sunset paints the sky as if there were no tomorrow.” – Anthony T. Hincks

“People have to remain positive and believe in those dreams. It’s really important.” – Kirsty Coventry

“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make It.” – Marcus Aurelius

“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” – John Harrigan

“I don’t think you can define love.” – Harry Styles

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.” – Rita Mae Brown

“Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.” – Gretel Ehrlich

“The wound is the place where the light enters you.” – Rumi

“A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

“The mere sense of living is joy enough.” – Emily Dickinson

“Love is sharing your popcorn.” – Charles Schultz

“A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens

“Happiness is a state of activity.” – Aristotle

“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost

“When you’re in love it’s the most glorious two and a half days of your life.” – Richard Lewis

“What we think, we become.” —Buddha

“Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.” – Anna Deavere Smith

“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.” – Theodore Roethke

“We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.” – Pierre Corneille

“Positive energy knows no boundaries.” – Lu Wei

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

“I just need you and some sunsets” – Atticus

“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.” –Harper Lee

“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.” – Elie Wiesel

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”  – Edith Wharton

“What’s done is done.” – William Shakespeare

“You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” —Michael Jordan

“You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Live and let live.” – Yiddish Proverb

“Be positive with every idea surrounding your dreams.” – Israelmore Ayivor

“Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” – Maryam Hasnaa

“It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream” – Bernard Williams

“Have I not destroyed my enemy when I have made him into my friend?” – Abraham Lincoln

“Do good, live in the most positive and joyful way possible every day.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” – John Lennon

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” -Thomas Jefferson

“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” –Theodore Roosevelt

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” – Oscar Wilde

“If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy

“Just let me keep the last piece of my heart before you tear it all apart.”— Lykke Li

“No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn.” – Maya Angelou

“You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

“Sadness flies away on the wings of time.” – Jean de La Fontaine

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” — Walter Winchell

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie

“To love at all is to be vulnerable” – C.S. Lewis

“It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.” – Vince Lombardi

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” – Buddha

“And still I rise.” – Maya Angelou

“Love yourself enough to set boundaries.” – Anna Taylor

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on It.” – Danny Kaye

“Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.” – William James

“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” ― Cesare Pavese

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu

“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur

“Enjoy the beauty of a sunset nature’s farewell kiss for the night.” – Sharon Rene

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’m possible!” – Audrey Hepburn

“Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

“Nothing will work unless you do.” – Maya Angelou

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” – Aristotle

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

“Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.” – David Letterman

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.” – Eva Gabor

“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are.” – Goldie Hawn

“We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Challenges are what make life interesting.” – Joshua Marine

“Self-love is necessary for a functional and successful life” – Angela C. Santomero

“Love: a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.” – Ambrose Bierce

“Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles M. Schulz

“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill

“I love you simply, without problems or pride.” – Pablo Neruda

“Sad things happen. They do. But we don’t need to live sad forever.” – Mattie Stepanek

“By discovering nature, you discover yourself.” — Maxime Lagacé

“Cute is when a person’s personality shines through their looks.” – Natalie Portman

“Tears are words the mouth can’t say nor can the heart bear.” – Joshua Wisenbaker

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski

“You never fail until you stop trying.” – Albert Einstein

“Sunsets are loved because they vanish.” – Ray Bradbury

“Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson

“Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”– Oprah Winfrey

“Be curious, not judgmental.” – Walt Whitman

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.” – Miguel de Unamuno

“To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.” —Bill Gates

“If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?” – Lily Tomlin

So that is it for our list of One Line Quotes. We hope you found the perfect one!

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